Obama Challenges Clinton’s Ethanol Shift

The Des Moines Register reports:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said today that rival Hillary Clinton’s past record shows she’s anti-ethanol.

“It’s hard to believe that she is a strong ethanol supporter given her track record and this is something that represents a major reversal and what we need is consistency on these issues,” Obama said in an interview. “If she’s willing to shift this quickly on this issue, we don’t know whether she will shift back when it gets hard.”

Obama’s new attack on Clinton comes as the New York senator’s closest rivals have ramped up their criticism of her. Clinton has continued to lead the Democratic field in national polls and has led recently in a close Iowa race.

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